Earthtimes - Privacy Policy

Privacy update : Our visitors privacy is important to us here at Earth Times and it is important that all visitors are aware of the personal data being collected from them.

Important Update w.ef 19/3/2009:

Earthtimes.org respects your privacy; certain information is collected from our web server for example your IP address, the type of computer you are using, the web browser, the domain server from which you access this site. The information collected is used by Earth Times to tailor, improve the site based on user’s interest. Our efforts are to provide complete information in simple and easy to understand language.

Cookies:

Earthtimes makes use of the cookies to save visitor preferences for example the "Show news from section" , the Earthtimes themes. Cookies may also be used by our Advertising Partners for example Google.com. It should be noted that our Advertising partners may from time to time collect information such as the visitors IP address, Browser, Location, Screen resolution etc. The information collected are used to understand visitor behavior and thereby enhance the advertising experience, by offering products that might be of interest.

These third-party advertising companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, Earth Times does not control any of these third party cookies and is not responsible for information gathered by them.

Interest-based advertising:

Interest-based advertising by Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie on this site. The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on some publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads including Earth Times. When users visit the Earth Times website and either view or click an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that visitors browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help Google and Earth Times to serve and manage the ads on their site and across the web to better effect. As mentioned previously, Google, one of the advertising partners used on Earth Times is a third-party vendor and uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to Earth Times and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Further information and resources can also be found by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative, or NAI.

Earth Times Member Section:

Earthtimes.org provides Email alert facility free of charge to registered users. We collect User Name and the Email id. The information collected and stored is used only by the earthtimes.org, no information is sold or shared with any other party.

User Comments/ Email this Article:

When visitors either send an article via email and/or leaves a comment, the email id is collected, this information is not displayed anywhere on the web site earthtimes.org, and neither shared with any other party.

We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.